Outdoor bed.



K. B. LEDBETTER.

OUTDOOR BED.

APPLxcATloN FILED APRJR. 19m.

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OUTDOOR BED.

Application led Ap1i1'28, 1915.

To all whom z' may concern:

Be it known that l, KATHERINE B. LED- n'iu'nn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Redmond, in the county of Crook and State of Oregon, have invented new and useful Improvements in Outdoor Beds, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a bed or sleeping berth for use in camping and out of doors, the bed being particularly useful in the summer season or in countries where the temperature is usually high so that a person occupying the bed, by the rapid evaporation of moisture due to a high temperature, will be kept Cool.

The invention contemplates, among other features, the provision of a bed which is in the nature of a tent-like chamber or compartment adapted to have its roof or sides made of a moisture absorbing material and supplied with moisture vwhich, being rapidly evaporated by the high temperature of the climate, will cause the interior of the compartment to be cooled, thus lowering the temperature therein.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the structure; Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical longitudinal sectional view.

Referring more particularly to the views, l provide a frame 10 which includes a series of uprights 11 and cross pieces 12, a roof 13 and sides 111, together with a back 15 and a front 16 arranged upon the frame, the sides, roof and back and front being preferably made of a moisture absorbing material, such as a loose mesh canvas or the like and forming a compartment 17. Screens or similar closures 18 are preferably connected with the uprights of the frame at their lower' portions and adjacent the lower longitudinal edges of the sides and back and suitably supported on the frame within the compartment is a bed body 19 which may be of any convenient material and structure, said bed Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2u, 19t G.

serial No. 24,529.

body being spaced from the floor or ground and connecting with the frame along the line of connection of the sides and back with the screens 18. The sides 14 may be in the nature of curtains to be rolled up and secured by suitable straps 20 and the frame 10 includes a ridge-pole 21 which supports a longitudinally extending trough 22 preferably extending throughout the length of the compartment but enteriorly thereof. A series of wicks or othermoisture absorbing members 23 are adapted to have their inner ends lie within the trough, which is filled with water, the outer ends of the wicks lying upon the roof 13. Now it will be clearly seen that the wick absorbing the water from the trough will convey the same to the roof and thus the moisture will also be conveyed to the sides so that the roof and sides, as well as the front and back, becoming moist from the water in the trough will, due to the high temperature, result in a rapid evaporation of the moisture from said roof, sides, back and front, thereby resultingin the lowering of the temperature within the compartment so that the occupant of the compartment will be kept cool during the night season or when occupying the compartment.

The frame 10 is preferably fashioned so that it can be folded up if desired, the sides, back and front being made of cloth as mentioned so that the entire structure can be easily folded into a compact package and carried along as a part of a camping outfit.

Having thus described my invention, l claim:

1. A bed embodying a frame including a ridge pole, a cover supported by said frame, a trough carried on the frame and disposed above and in superposed parallel relation to the ridge pole of the frame, and wicks in said trough and overhanging the opposite longitudinal edges thereof at spaced intervals throughout the length of the trough and eX- tending upon the covering of the frame at points to opposite sides of the ridge pole.

2. A bed comprising a frame, sides, a back, a front and roof, said sides, back, front and roof being supported on said frame and forming a compartment, a coverying for said frame, a moistener disposed ter of said frame, screens on said frame at vrLloove the plane ofthe coyering and in super- In testimony whereof I aix 1ny signature posed relationY with the longitudinal cenin presence of two witnesses.

the lower portion thereof, and a bed body KATHERINE B' LEDBETTER supported on the frame in said compartment Witnesses:

in spaced parallel relation to the floor or LURA M. POLAND, ground upon which the frame reposes. W. B. DAGGETT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

